Example sentences of "they [vb base] [verb] from [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The non-dipole terms give a site dependence to the VGP paths ; they tend to move from east to west if the site is northeast or southwest of the point 0°N ; 90°E and from west to east if the site is northwest or southeast of it .
2 Already ‘ wish lists ’ have been made where staff indicate what they want to see from agency status and these suggestions have been acted on .
3 The study of black sportsmen and society brings into relief the way in which the youths ' orientations to school and what they expect to achieve from education affect , not segmentally but totally , their attitudes , postures and the way in which they apportion their time and energies .
4 In fact , they all look like they should be in different bands — which is how they manage to slip from soul to jazz , from funk to thrash , so easily .
5 The Co Antrim team certainly had cause to celebrate after storming to the title after five years in the doldrums … and now they aim to go from strength to strength .
6 My God ! they 've landed from planet X !
7 Longman have made a very good start to the year and erm , and so they 've progressed from day one , making last year I expect to continue .
8 It could be argued that people in our region have actually lost confidence in their water , they 've suffered from cryptospyridia , blue-green algae , we 're now in a drought period , how would you reassure the public ?
9 And he 's a , he 's something framed up in the room there , I have n't it 's a certificate for something they 've got from school , and he 's that framed and up in his room .
10 This would have been a stage towards the best-remembered dance sequence in the film , prominently featured in That 's Entertainment ! ( 1974 ) , when they go ‘ Dancing In The Dark ’ in a fantasy Central Park , she in a pleated white skirt and flat shoes , he in a light sport jacket and slacks , just as they 've come from rehearsal .
11 From that moment they have gone from strength to strength and last year reached the final of the Pilkington Cup only to lose in extra time .
12 The crunch game came at the second hurdle when Sudbury toppled the mighty London Welsh at Moorsfield , after which they have gone from strength to strength , bolstered by a refreshing brand of running rugby .
13 Sh I mean to , to my mind , should n't the land ownership possibly one of the key issues cos that is if you have land ownership and then you 're just paving the way for the new capitalist society and to , you know , according to Marxist theory which I think is a pretty dodgy one , they have to go from capitalism to achieve socialism
14 The following share their comments on what they have gained from direction :
15 Such divisions have sometimes been based upon arguments about strategy and policy but , as often as not , they have emerged from personality differences among individuals with volatile and opposing temperaments .
16 Do you think actors need to keep in training once they have graduated from drama school ?
17 But like so many owners , they have learnt from experience that when David Elsworth takes a view about horses , it seldom pays to disagree .
18 Users should be able to monitor the progress of any background tasks they have initiated from submission to completion .
19 With very few exceptions they have refrained from ostentation : indeed their Nonconformist distaste for personal extravagance , reinforced by infusions of Scottish blood , has sometimes prompted small economies which , in the light of their extraordinary benevolence to good causes , have been accepted as amusingly careful instead of absurdly mean .
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